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Dallas police say a 39-year-old man who was arrested near the Katy Trail Sunday night had been paying a 15-year-old boy for sex.

Jose Mario Gallo is being held on suspicion of sexual assault of a child, compelling prostitution and an immigration hold.

According to police records, officers encountered Gallo and the boy after police received a report of two suspicious men walking on the Katy Trail about 10 p.m. Sunday night in the area around the 3900 block of Buena Vista Street. Officers found Galo hiding in bushes in the backyard of a neighboring home, the records state.

The teen told police that he met Gallo during the summer at Gallo’s apartment complex in the 2500 block of Community Drive in the Love Field area. He said Gallo paid him on at least six occasions to have sex with him. He said he had told him he was 16, even though he was really 15.

On Sunday night, the teen-ager told police that he was walking around the area of Webb Chapel Extension in Northwest Dallas when he encountered Gallo. He said Gallo asked him if he wanted to “go cruise.” He said while they were driving around that Gallo offered to pay him $30 for sex.

He said they drove to the Katy Trail where the teen-ager performed a sex act on Gallo in the bushes.

Gallo refused to talk to investigators, the records state.

Irving police arrested Gallo in March 2010 for drug possession after he and another man were caught in a car with cocaine. Gallo spent was sentenced to six days in the county jail after he plead guilty to a state jail felony offense in August 2012.

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